How do I cite a play in an anthology in MLA style?
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Works Cited

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie Smith, 3rd ed. vol. 2, W.W. Norton and Company, 2014, pp. 470-532.

 

Narrative citation: A Raisin in the Sun opens with the younger mother rousing her son: "RUTH. Come on now, boy, it's seven thirty…I say hurry up! You ain't the only person in the world got to use a bathroom…" (1.1.1-5).

 

*  Include the act, scene, and line number in parentheses. In the above example, the parenthetical information refers to Act 1, Scene 1, lines 105.

 

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